fernlike3923
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- Comment on Is misskey-square.net down for everybody? 2 months ago:
Thanks for the info!
- Submitted 2 months ago to fediverse@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Wells Fargo employee found dead in cubicle 4 days after she clocked in: ‘She was just lying on her desk’ 2 months ago:
I think passphrases would work great in that case.
- Comment on Some piracy anime streaming websites, such as Aniwave (aka 9anime) shut down. 2 months ago:
I’d recommend the Miru program if you’re on PC. It’s a torrent streaming software for anime that is also open source.
- Submitted 2 months ago to anime@ani.social | 15 comments
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 2 months ago:
Chess is a great strategy game that is played between 2 players with many fun variations available!
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
Tried to no avail.
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
Sadly no Dremel. I will try out a screw extractor and buy a few other screws before drilling or getting adhesive, thank you for your response!
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
I will check out a hardware store in the morning, didn’t really know about those, thanks! Though is it a tiny bit possible to get this out in some kind of DIY way too?
- Comment on How can I get a screw like this out? 2 months ago:
I don’t really have superglue right now, and the screw looks like this far up, not sure it can be called tight or not.
(Screwdriver for comparison, couldn’t really find something better.)
- Submitted 2 months ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 79 comments
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 2 months ago:
Thank you very much! I guess it makes sense a little bit that the lead developer of an older-style operating system is a conservative, but I was still not expecting it. It’s pretty sad that this seems to be the only new web browser engine that has actual support.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 2 months ago:
Okay, what does a sweepstake or a contest have to do with a browser extension, made to spot fake reviews. Trade shows? What?
I did take a look at this privacy policy before to check if the extension was worth installing, but holy fuck I didn’t see that.
And they collect a lot of things, supposedly “automatically”. I have never developed a browser extension, but does the browser force this information on the extension? Do they just look at their data collection and find the geolocation of their users, how they accessed the extension download page, browser specifics etc.?
They also sell your “automatically collected” geolocation data, “internet or other electronic network activity”, “inferences drawn from other personal information to create a profile about a consumer”, and “commercial information”. I’ve quoted the three data selling points I really don’t understand, since their “descriptions” aren’t very descriptive. But if we are to fully trust the lawful descriptions they provided, I hope the extension stays at 40,000 users really.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
Yeah, no problem at all. This is a lot better than people downvoting and not actually talking about what they disagree on. Felt like r/apple.
Reading it again, Pocket’s privacy policy is actually not that bad. Thankfully it was not one of those 100 page ones that are made to confuse the shit out of consumers, but I have a slight problem with it.
“Personalized Advertising: Some Pocket web pages have ads. With your consent, Pocket’s ad partners will place advertising cookies on your device to personalize the ads you see here and on other websites.”
How does this consent exactly work? Is it just a simple check you have to tick in your account settings, or is it one of those cookie banners that require you to untick 800 advertising partners to “not give consent”? I’m not exactly a Pocket user so I’m a bit ignorant about it.
Though there doesn’t seem to be another privacy concern with Pocket. It seems I had misconceptions about their practices.
The one other problem I have with Pocket though is, it’s not a feature that should be in a browser, it should be an extension. They have already made a lot of extensions for features that not all of the userbase might need, even FakeSpot is currently an extension (approximately 40,000 users). I guess this is a whole another argument though.
I will write my thoughts about FakeSpot in another reply.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
There are many software from bigots and shitheads that still get used, being seperated from their creator (e.g. Hyprland, I guess you can put here some social media platforms like Xitter if we’re not only talking about open-source software). Although I prefer not using or supporting such software, I’ve not been able to find what you’re talking about. I’ve tried searching “ladybird pronoun controversy (forgive my search engine skills)” and other similar sentences but nothing really related pops up, so it would be great if you told me your source. Thank you!
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
Ladybird is fairly new. Just like how Mozilla didn’t get Gecko to this point in 1 year, Ladybird will take years of development to become a reliable browser and browser engine.
I pretty much agree with you. The alternatives are far worse. Seeing Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge being literal spyware, other Chromium-based browsers cutting out support for content-blocking extensions Firefox is vastly superior to them in terms of privacy. Although that still doesn’t mean Firefox is good, at least if we’re past talking about web browser engines etc., using another Firefox-based browser which is less bloated (Firefox Sync off by default, no Pocket, no recommendations in Addons tab), more privacy-friendly (all telemetry off by default, uBlock Origin installed by default, some hardening options from about:config enabled by default) seems to be the best choice currently, since other options like GNOME’s Epiphany and KDE’s Falkon sucks, if we’re being honest.
And I do kind of fit your description, if we exclude being a conspiracy-theorist.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
Thank you. Yes, they are also developing their own web engine, which is a very complicated piece of software because of the current sad state of the web. But it doesn’t excuse any of the things I mentioned, and web engine development still doesn’t suckle up that much money as we can see from their current revenue and other efforts to make an independent web engine such as Ladybird.
I do not mind Mozilla starting other projects, but if you’re talking about FakeSpot or Pocket which are getting integrated into the “more private alternative to browsers like Internet Explorer, and now Chrome” by the “non-profit” whom “prioritize people and their privacy over profits”, I think you need to take a look at those privacy policies I linked in my previous comment.
I agree with you on your last paragraph, but there are some things I’m bothered with. Mozilla is (or was) a company that focused on one thing, their web browser. Apple and Google are (and were) different, in that they have a vast range of products to maintain. And Gecko is most definitely inferior to Blink in terms of speed, although I’m not familiar with any of their “modernity”.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
I really couldn’t agree more.
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
Mozilla’s funding did mostly consist of the Google partnership (86%), but as you can see, it’s not their only source of income. And you really don’t need half a fucking billion just to develop a web browser, which is open source, which also gets community contributions. This is made pretty obvious by their current revenue (>$1,000,000,000) and their CEO’s whopping $5.6 million salary.
Don’t donate to a shitty for-profit that masks itself with their non-profit company. Instead donate to something like Ladybird, whom are currently in early development but have no plans on adding features that actively spy on you (FakeSpot, Pocket), and they don’t need $500 million to develop a web browser.
And if you’re going to talk about Mozilla’s social work, just don’t. I’ve already seen it.
- Comment on Exclusive: Google-backed software developer GitLab explores sale, sources say | Reuters 3 months ago:
Forgejo?
- Comment on Google pulls the plug on uBlock Origin, leaving over 30 million Chrome users susceptible to intrusive ads 3 months ago:
Mozilla still does pretty good without any donations, and your donations will most definitely not be spent on Firefox.
- Comment on Inconceivable Horror 3 months ago:
I was about to say a mantis shrimp, but I think it wouldn’t really matter if it was a seashell anyway.
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
Yup, the commenter is from hexbear.net and I thought the users of an instance whom defederated from another instance, can’t see anything from that instance which got defederated.
- Comment on Aluminum 3 months ago:
Wait, wasn’t sh.itjust.works defederated from hexbear? Why can I see your comment?
- Comment on Macroeconomic Policies 3 months ago:
I trusted you!
- Comment on Netflix officially removes Basic - the cheapest ad-free tier 3 months ago:
That is the best sentence I’ve ever seen.
- Comment on Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you 4 months ago:
I wouldn’t use any other extensions, especially something like Chamaleon for Mullvad browser though.
Extensions, specifically the ones that change how a website behaves or how a website sees the user (such as an adblocker or a user agent string switcher) can be detected. Mullvad only comes with NoScript and uBlock Origin which is enough most of the time, and installing other extensions can be used to fingerprint you, especially since Mullvad tries to have every user seem like the same user to websites (which is why things such as letterboxing are enabled). - Comment on Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election 4 months ago:
That’s not the original commenter.
- Comment on Google Maps tests new pop-up ads that give you an unnecessary detour 4 months ago:
Organic Maps is good enough for most cases. Did you try that?
